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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Further issues with Selco',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/02/15.jpg" alt="An overcast day" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="banking">
	<h2>Online Banking</h2>
	<p>
		A couple days ago, I updated a bunch of packages on my system, including Firefox.
		Firefox actually deleted four of my bookmarked pages, as Mozilla decided to change the twelve-page new tab bookmark page to a page with new features, but only eight bookmarks.
		I don&apos;t even know what the lost bookmarks pointed to, but that&apos;s neither here nor there.
	</p>
	<p>
		Selco was telling me to update Firefox because their website&apos;s so hacky that it depends on specific browser versions.
		I was running the latest long-term support version, but that wasn&apos;t good enough for them.
		Anyway, with my browser newly updated, I decided to check out their website again.
		Needless to say, their website is still severely broken.
		The update didn&apos;t even help, because it still doesn&apos;t accept the long-term support version, which Debian uses for stability.
		I have a new long-term support version, but I still don&apos;t have the latest not-so-stable, not-so-secure version.
		But now, when I tried to log in, I was blocked by a nearly-blank page that just has the Selco logo at the top and a bar that says "Card Fraud Alerts by Text".
		A little pie chart logo is also present on this bar.
		The page presents me with no options to go to another page or interact with my account in any way.
		Like, seriously?
		What is this garbage?
		I also tried the live chat feature of the website, but it just hangs a while, then tells me there&apos;s an issue in communicating with the server.
		Opening up the developer console, I find the website was sending me <code>403</code> responses.
		It was deliberately blocking me!
	</p>
	<p>
		So I wrote via their Web-form-to-email page, asking how to get logged in.
		Predictably, they told me I should telephone them for help because they can&apos;t verify my identity via email and therefore can&apos;t modify my account.
		I wasn&apos;t looking for account modification, I was looking for webpage debugging.
		I wasn&apos;t trying to change any info, I was just trying to make the page even work.
		The email also told me I should switch to Internet Explorer, as that&apos;s the Web browser the site is supposedly designed to work with, and if that doesn&apos;t work, they might have other things I could try.
		So I wrote back explaining that I can&apos;t telephone them because I don&apos;t have telephone service and can&apos;t use Internet Explorer because it&apos;s not compatible with my system, then asked what other things I could try.
	</p>
	<p>
		Instead of fixing the broken webpage, they made a change on the account.
		It seems they could opt me out of fraud alerts via $a[SMS] on their end, and the page only shows up if you haven&apos;t opted out.
		They said they couldn&apos;t verify my identity at first, but after my second message, they recognised me enough to trust it was my account.
		I guess they probably see me as that nut job that keeps writing in every time their website starts acting screwy and refuses to do this via telephone.
		Seriously.
		I&apos;m not doing this via telephone.
		I&apos;d sooner close my account, which honestly, I thought I was going to have to do this time.
		Anyway, they also told me that I should update Firefox, and if that didn&apos;t work, I should try Chrome, because that&apos;s the browser their website is designed to work with.
		Um.
		Which is it?
		Is Internet Explorer the browser the site&apos;s built for, or is Chrome the browser the site&apos;s built for?
		Make up your mind.
		I tried Chromium to see if they&apos;d fixed the issues in that browser.
		(I couldn&apos;t even log in using Chromium, last time I tried, as the log in form doesn&apos;t show up.)
		I don&apos;t know if they&apos;ve fixed that, but now, attempting to load the page in Chromium brings up one of those obnoxious CloudFlare $a[CAPTCHA] walls.
		Last time I interacted with one of those on the Selco site, it made me fill out twenty to thirty $a[CAPTCHA]s to get through.
		And I tried several things that day, each time having to fill out about as many $a[CAPTCHA]s each time.
		No, thanks.
		That&apos;s no way to treat your clients.
		At least with Firefox, I don&apos;t have to fill out all those obnoxious $a[CAPTCHA]s.
	</p>
	<p>
		Seriously, I think the main reason I even stay with this credit union is to put what little I can into trying to keep them from going total dark side and blocking $a[Tor] and perfectly-valid-but-not-unstably-cutting-edge Web browsers.
		I don&apos;t know if they&apos;d even bat an eye if they end up locking me out altogether, but I can hope.
		It might not be worth all the stress they cause me though.
		I might end up needing to leave next time garbage like this comes up.
		That said, it looks like they&apos;re no longer blocking me from the Web chat today.
		Maybe next time, I should be more patient and give it a day or two of attempts before I resort to email, which they never seem to want to help me over.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I forgot that 64-bit Windows support was one of $a[PHP]&apos;s newer features.
			At first, I wondered why you&apos;d singled out 64-bit Windows.
			I mean, I&apos;m pretty sure $a[PHP] supports 64-bit versions of all the platforms it runs on.
			However, 64-bit support for Windows was actually added much later than for other systems.
			I&apos;m not sure if such support was more difficult to add or if it just wasn&apos;t in demand, but it used to be that you had to use 32-bit $a[PHP] on Windows, regardless of whether you were running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows.
		</p>
		<p>
			The phrase &quot;type declaration&quot; is a bit misleading though.
			$a[PHP]&apos;s newer versions allow you to declare the return type from a function, as well as the parameter types, but for the most part, it doesn&apos;t allow you to declare types.
			For example, you can&apos;t declare the type of a variable.
			Personally, I consider that to be one of the weaknesses of the language.
			$a[PHP] is my go-to language for nearly everything, but I do really wish it had strong typing.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="nails">
	<h2>Nails</h2>
	<p>
		I hadn&apos;t paid much attention to what the nail polish fashion is around here.
		My mother didn&apos;t like when she saw my toes painted pink though, saying it was ugly.
		Later, I tried purple, just because I&apos;d bought purple polish to fill in the hole where the purple gem fell out of my ring.
		She didn&apos;t like that, either.
		In all honest, neither did I though.
		If I recall, we agreed it looked too much like I&apos;d bruised all my toes, and not just the one I actually bruised, which I haven&apos;t been paining at all so I can keep an eye on it.
		Later, I painted my fingers and thumbs cyan to match my favourite flannel.
		She didn&apos;t like that, either.
		She said I should go with dark colours.
		Red and black were brought up, and I got the impression the old, goopy brown I had would be fine with her as well.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve been wearing the last of the goopy brown for a few days.
		I wore a barely-noticeable, almost flesh-tone polish to work for a while.
		I&apos;ve also worn the cyan in the building a couple times, but never during an actual shift.
		Today was the first time I&apos;ve worn noticeable polish during the work day.
		A few people complimented me on it, but no one had anything bad to say.
		Either the rest didn&apos;t care, or they decided to be polite and not say anything.
		That&apos;s just how it should be.
		There&apos;s no reason to make someone that&apos;s already not happy with their body feel any worse.
		I think continuing to wear polish will help me with my self-consciousness issues.
		It sure doesn&apos;t help me blend in, so I&apos;ve got to get use to sticking out, and being fine with that.
		That is, until I&apos;m able to look more like a girl anyway, at which point I&apos;ll probably wear it less often.
	</p>
	<p>
		I took a look at the nails of the people I work with today, and found one white-nailed person, as well as a couple of each pinks and light blues.
		I don&apos;t know what my mother was thinking.
		They look fine.
		I guess here opinion doesn&apos;t match what people are wearing.
		So it should be just fine for me to wear lighter and less-natural-looking colours.
		Which is good, because my brown polish peeled off pretty badly today, and I&apos;ve got no more of it.
		I think the goopy stuff just doesn&apos;t dry well, so it doesn&apos;t hold well.
		It&apos;s old and messed-up.
		I can&apos;t even get it to stop smearing without a top coat.
		I actually tried going to bed with it once, hoping it&apos;d dry in my sleep.
		It didn&apos;t.
		And I&apos;d put it on a couple hours before going to bed too, so it wasn&apos;t drying even after ten or eleven hours.
		If I use a top coat, the top coat dries and my nails are fine, but I&apos;m guessing it&apos;s still wet underneath, which is probably why it doesn&apos;t grip the nail like it should.
	</p>
	<p>
		Earlier in the week, I&apos;d decided to try to use up the goopy polish first, before it gets any older and gets any worse.
		I had three bottles of it.
		The first, a nice, deep, brown, which is gone now.
		The second, a medium-light blue, but it&apos;s dried beyond the point of obnoxious goopy to unusable goopy.
		So I&apos;ve got to throw it out.
		And lastly, a colour somewhere between emerald green and cyan.
		It reminds me of a dragon, for some reason.
		So I guess that&apos;s what I&apos;ll be wearing for a while.
	</p>
</section>
END
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